rotate and scale tools dont work with NGUI 2.5.0

[mindlube]

edit: 2.3.4 does not exhibit this problem


I dont know what introduced this bug, NGUI updates or Unity updates but it's pretty severe:

- Find an NGUI widget, e.g. in the example scenes
- select it in the scene view
- hit w for move tool, that works fine
- hit e for rotate tool *does not work* acts as move tool
- hit r for scale tool *does not work* also acts as move tool.

I have only noticed this problem with NGUI widgets so far. Pretty much dead in the water at the moment because of this.

[juggernate]

Same problems with NGUI 2.5.0 in Unity 3.5.7 Mac. And sometimes the translation manipulators make it rotate.

Also, when I have a sprite selected and see the green manipulators, I can no longer alt+RMB to zoom. Select something else and it works fine again.

[ArenMook]

Do you not see the knobs around the widget selection? Try dragging them and pay close attention to the mouse cursor. It tells you what will happen -- move, rotate, or scale.

[mindlube]

Do you not see the knobs around the widget selection? Try dragging them and pay close attention to the mouse cursor. It tells you what will happen -- move, rotate, or scale.

Umm OK I looked closer again, and now I do see the mouse cursor changes to allow move, rotate and scale. Seems to work. *But* there are a number of problems with this feature.

- the standard Unity rotate and scale transform tools are broken now for your widgets. for those used to just hitting w-e-r keys to translate, rotate, scale, this is going to be a big slowdown. This really seems like a bug to me.
- can't see anyway constrain your scale tool to uniform scaling (maintain aspect ratio of a sprite)
- if you look at any UIRoot hierarchy, e.g. your example scenes, at least half of the objects are standard gameobjects, containers and transforms, not ngui widgets. So this is inconsistent.
- what need is this solving?

[juggernate]

I agree with mindlube. This made NGUI harder to use for me as it breaks the regular Unity transform manipulators. Now to do a uniform scale I have to add a group object above the sprite and scale that.

I'm on a mac and I don't see any cursor changes working with the green knob things.

Plus the alt+right mouse button zoom breaking is another big slowdown.

[mindlube]

for what it's worth, I am using Unity 4.1.2 on Mac and the mouse cursor changes if I hover over the green dots around a ngui widget.

[juggernate]

Ok, maybe the cursor change is a unity version thing, I'm on 3.5.7. Or maybe a retina thing with different icon sets?

[mindlube]

Could be! I dont have a retina display so cant verify.  Here is a little workaround I discovered for the tool selection:

- duplicate a widget
- select the 2 or more widgets; use unity's multiple selection **
- now use unity translate/rotate/scale tools
- delete the extra widget
( the new ngui transform tool  doesnt support multiselect, it looks like )

** cant remember - this might be a Unity 4.x feature

[ArenMook]

I will just make the new gizmos optional when I return from GDC.

[mindlube]

Thanks! & have a great time at GDC 

[mindlube]

I will just make the new gizmos optional when I return from GDC.

Thank you for doing this by the way- I greatly appreciate being able to toggle off this feature.

NGUI menu | toggle draggable handles <--- if anyone is wondering how